Tadasuke KOTANI 小谷忠典
Tamaran Hill
Nippon Visions ½
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s favorite swear word. She soon imagines herself inside the book’s story, which also deals with someone intrigued with that particular word, and even meets the real-life author Senji KUROI there. Tadasuke KOTANI mixes narrative and essayistic forms to create a playful ode to literature, writing, and the ambiguity of the Japanese language.
Tue.,
June 09,
2020
—
Sun.,
June 14,
2020
Vimeo on Demand
German premiere
Original with English subtitles
Territories: Worldwide
Drama Family Experimental
たまらん坂
Tamaranzaka
Japan 2019
86 minutes
Director
Tadasuke KOTANI
Script
Shinobu TSUCHIYA
Cinematography
Kosuke KURAMOTO
Music
Shinichi ISOHATA
Production
Musashino Museum of Literature
World sales
CaRTe bLaNChe
Cast
Hinako WATANABE, Kanji FURUTACHI, Makiko WATANABE, Mayu OZAWA
About Tadasuke KOTANI
小谷忠典
Tadasuke KOTANI, born in Osaka in 1977, first studied painting and then film at Visual Arts College Osaka. His directorial debut LULLABY (2002) was awarded at the Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival. In 2008, he made his first feature-length documentary film LINE, which won the Cult Award at the 2009 Torino Film Festival. His second documentary THE CAT THAT LIVED A MILLION TIMES (2012) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. In 2020, Nippon Connection screened his experimental feature film TAMARAN HILL (2019).